10 Inventions Meant to End Wars that Failed Miserably

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Industrialists are honest about one benefit of war: it tends to drive innovation. But so does peace. The following ten inventions were all to that end, or at least to minimizing carnage.

It’s not their fault they tended to make things much worse.

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[jimbevske]

The inventors of the machine gun and dynamite both thought they'd made weapons so terrible that people would not go to war.

[danielsantiagourtado]

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[USonuMabeaCh]

The Nazis didn't design the U-boats, they literally existed and were used in WW1, which was still Imperial Germany. The Nazis kept using them.

[Mikkell]

I just love the title. It's just so accurate

[TheBlackFuton]

I’m feeling like Barry Allen at the end when George Clooney showed up. Who tf is this?!😂😂😂 Got used to him pretty quickly though but totally not who I was expecting 😅

[NegiTaiMetal]

There was a time when Richard Jordan Gatling did make the Gatling gun to try to make wars obsolete due to it's ridiculous firepower. It of course didn't and it only added a unique arsenal to which would then become the Minigun and the GAU-3.

[HogCity]

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[danielsimmonds]

A particularly interesting video. Keep up the good work!

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[alidaweber]

Warfare will exist as long as people exist.

[USonuMabeaCh]

I'm sorry, but using drones is "shameful" versus sending troops to possibly die, because the other side can't afford them? Are you serious?

[bncbbeo]

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[leozao]

I'm tired of people not understanding the purposes of the UN and the Security Council.

The purpose of the UN isn't to stop war. It's to provide a space for debate and conflict/dispute mediation/resolution.

The purpose of the Security Council isn't to prevent wars or to promote justice. It's to prevent wars between the most powerful nations (like the world wars). That's also why you have the veto: to prevent a major threat to a major power's interests (which could lead to war among the major powers).

On a similar note, nuclear weapons weren't supposed to end wars. They're, on a global scale, supposed to prevent total wars between major powers. And, on a national scale, they're supposed to guarantee that, even if the country that owns it is defeated in war, it won't be destroyed.

Honestly, this video shows a very surface-level research. It felt like the kind of list full of errors I could find in any random page on the Internet.

[The_Blazement]

the first time a submarine was used to sink a ship was all the way back in the American Civil War

[matthewmckever]

The invention of the hangmans noose was thought to stop crime and the sword was originally ceremonial, untill a head fell off.

[MF_UNDERTOW]

Rosevelt said “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

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